Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes.

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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word ‘obey’ in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I shall not grow conservative with age.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The greatest block today in the way of woman’s emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work – our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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